WRITER · RESEARCHER · TEACHER

Tim Gibson

I write about class, memory, education, place, and the lives people inherit.

selected essays

Short fiction

a selection of essays
on class, memory, education,
and place.

A selection of short fiction on memory, childhood, longing, and place.

Research
Scholarship in education,
memory, and place

misread
an essay on depression, class, and elite schooling, and on what institutions miss when they mistake performance for a person.

the better part of the inheritance
an essay on america, europe, and the moral inheritance of liberal democracy in a time of weakening conviction.

the greek ghost
an essay on greece, brexit, memory, and the lingering fear that a society can quietly lose its promise of a normal future.

what was usable
AN ESSAY ON CLASS, INHERITANCE, DEPRESSION, AND SOCIAL MOBILITY, AND ON THE THIN LINE BETWEEN THE LIFE ONE LIVES AND THE LIFE ONE MIGHT EASILY HAVE INHERITED.

The goal between the trees
A man returns to the park of his childhood and finds that the space between two trees still serves as a goal, drawing him into an evening of memory, loss, and recognition.